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Re: CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe.
- From: Marco Atzeri <marco_atzeri at yahoo dot it>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 01:56:56 +0000 (GMT)
- Subject: Re: CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe.
--- Mar 6/4/10, Christopher Faylor ha scritto:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:01:21AM
> -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:10:28PM +0100, Dave Korn
> wrote:
> >>On 06/04/2010 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:55:19AM -0400,
> George Barrick wrote:
> >>>> What I am suggesting is that the new
> cygwin.dll has difficulties
> >>>> implementing the kind of pipe that octave
> uses to send its graphing
> >>>> commands to gnuplot.? The specific
> details of the pipe that serves as
> >>>> an example of this can be seen in the
> __gnuplot_get_var__.m script
> >>>> inside the GNU Octave package.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry but unless someone can narrow this down
> to a test case which
> >>> does not requier installing gnuplot I don't
> intend on investigating
> >>> this.
> >>
> >>? Here ya go.? I took a look at the
> octave module, and narrowed it down to the
> >>equivalent C testcase attached, which appears to
> reproduce the same failure
> >>mode for me:
> >
> >Thanks for tracking it down but the test case is
> probably simpler than this.
> >
> >? $ mkfifo /tmp/fifo
> >? $ cat /tmp/fifo
> >
> >That demonstrates the problem.? I'll fix this
> ASAP.
>
> This should be fixed in the latest snapshot:
>
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> cgf
>
octave plotting is fine with 20100406
Thanks
Marco
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